June 5, 2023

Swearing in of new police chief

Algoma City Clark Erin Mueller thanked Randy Remiker for his service as chief of police and read a farewell letter on his behalf before swearing in David Allen as the city’s new chief of police.

“His knowledge and background have helped him build a rapport with multiple organizations and law enforcement agencies across the area,” Mueller said.

“David is quoted time and time again, saying ‘I work for the people. I serve the people.’ And throughout the interview and hiring process, we saw that core value time and time again.

“He’s going to be boots on the ground; ready to see you; shake your hand; and get to know you. We know he’s going to be an integral part of our community. He’s going to lead our police department, and we are so excited to see what he is going to keep our beautiful Algoma moving forward.”

Sanitary sewer rate increase

During the meeting, the council unanimously passed an ordinance to increase the sanitary sewer rates on July 1.

Recommendations brought forward by the finance and personnel committee call for an increase of 4.5% in July, 4.5% in January, and 3% in January 2025

Grass clipping cleanup

Algoma City Administrator Matt Murphy reminded the public to clean up glass clippings that are blown out onto the street.

“When people are cutting their grass, and they blow their grass out onto the street; if you would please sweep that up, clean that up. Just because we blow it out on the street, it doesn’t mean that it is there for the street sweeper to clean up. If you clean it up, that is less that we need to take out of the storm sewers throughout the city when it does rain, if it does rain. That is where it all ends up is in our storm sewers. And, all of our storm sewers here in the city of Algoma more or less go directly into the Ahnapee River or out onto our beach or we have to clean them up because they are all plugged up.

Hiring of new police officer

Following closed-session discussion, the council reconvened into open session where they approved the hiring of Tanner Karman as a full-time police officer for the city.

Karman was then sworn in by Mueller.